On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 11:10:45AM -0800, Tim Harvey wrote: > before adding the internal PHY nodes it works fine so no backporting > needed. I just don't want to add the complete/unambiguous dt-bindings > until your patch lands as at that point it would otherwise be broken. Right, but there is some debate on whether device tree updates should require new kernel or not. Since in this case, kernels 5.18 and newer can trivially support the updated device trees with this change, I think it would be silly not to let it be backported. As for older kernels, it really depends on what the board ships with.